State ex rel. Boynton v. State Highway Commission

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Harvey, J.:

This is an original proceeding in quo warranto challenging the authority of the state highway commission to execute and carry out on its part the provisions of chapter 98 of the laws of the special session of the legislature of 1933, and for a declaratory judgment as to the validity of the act. Among other things the petition alleges that, proceeding under this act, defendant is about to enter into a contract with the proper agency of the federal government for borrowing the sum of $17,000,000 to be used *914for the purposes expressed in the…